Upodobanie do ciszy: sytuowanie uważności we współczesnym kontekście

• Authors: Stella M. Čapek

Title variants

EN

A taste for silence: Situating mindfulness in a contemporary context

Abstracts

EN

Drawing on qualitative methods and data, this paper considers mindfulness in the context of a broader socio-cultural interest in recovering silence in the contemporary experience. This is part of a wider project exploring a sociology of silence, particularly ‘active silence’ that is experienced as spacious and relational rather than empty. Although the author’s primary analytical framework is sociological, she incorporates scholarship from a range of fields such as acoustic ecology, communications, religious studies, and social and natural science research on meditation. Sociologically, she uses concepts from George Herbert Mead as well as ethnographies of meditation communities to generate insights into the symbolic significance of a silent pause, its connection to mindfulness, and the cultivation of an inclusive self. She discusses how a ‘post-Fordist’ capitalist marketplace shapes a taste for mindfulness, and identifies dilemmas that nonprofit mindfulness organisations face when operating in this context, including emerging tensions over mindfulness as a public good or a privatised resource reserved for elites. The author notes Zygmunt Bauman’s distinction between the pilgrim and the tourist, and considers its relevance to the experience of contemporary meditators. She also includes recent debates about mindfulness and social justice, privilege, white space, and online resources for cultivating mindfulness in cyberspace.

Keywords

PL

cisza; uważność; zmiana społeczna; postfordyzm; biała przestrzeń

EN

silence; mindfulness; social change; post-fordism; white space

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 12-23

Contributors

author

Stella M. Čapek

• https://orcid.org/0000000215442915

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2020.110.02

Biblioteka Nauki

1857069